do indigenous ethnic groups count or no? china and India together have a few hundred indigenous populations that didn’t get genocided, and a few hundred that did (most before 1900 for stupid reasons). Canada succeeded at almost all of theirs, the west is really good at getting rid of things they don’t want, China tries to construct systems that please them without giving them real power, which is also evil but definitely beats ‘killing the indian and saving the man’
it would take several classes to understand diversity in China because of their government system and long history but this English wiki article is a great start
I’ve always found that it’s better to just focus on what people are likely to become invested in rather than expecting them to read everything. this is a much shorter article, read this one instead:
i don’t want to do a whataboutism, so I’ll let that go. but if you ever become curious about Chinese ethnic minorities they are my hyperfixation so DM me at that time
Chinese ethnic minorities have taught me all about their cultures, in person, here, in Canada, in my high school classrooms. When I asked them why they came to Canada from China, one of them, Lubin, drew a big pie chart, and put a tiny sliver in the chart. She said the tiny sliver is her, and everything else is Han.
do indigenous ethnic groups count or no? china and India together have a few hundred indigenous populations that didn’t get genocided, and a few hundred that did (most before 1900 for stupid reasons). Canada succeeded at almost all of theirs, the west is really good at getting rid of things they don’t want, China tries to construct systems that please them without giving them real power, which is also evil but definitely beats ‘killing the indian and saving the man’
it would take several classes to understand diversity in China because of their government system and long history but this English wiki article is a great start
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China
I’ve always found that it’s better to just focus on what people are likely to become invested in rather than expecting them to read everything. this is a much shorter article, read this one instead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_in_China
They don’t count when China’s actively driving them out, no.
I grew up with them, here, in Canada, because of what China has done to the non-Han people.
i don’t want to do a whataboutism, so I’ll let that go. but if you ever become curious about Chinese ethnic minorities they are my hyperfixation so DM me at that time
Chinese ethnic minorities have taught me all about their cultures, in person, here, in Canada, in my high school classrooms. When I asked them why they came to Canada from China, one of them, Lubin, drew a big pie chart, and put a tiny sliver in the chart. She said the tiny sliver is her, and everything else is Han.
that’s a really rich life you’ve had to learn about so many kinds of people
Yeah it was pretty cool, she wore this big traditional headdress for her valedictorian address.
i hope this sends someone down a Kyrgyzstan rabbit hole, it would be a great honor to enrich you with this knowledge